The Intruder (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
All day the blanket snapped and swelled on the line, roused by a hot spring wind.... From there it witnessed ...
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a ...
(an ascetic poem for karen's birthday) fancy having a birthday on a thursday when you do the buying of the ...
Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere, the possibility of fear; the wall that might tumble down, because it's for sure ...
Spring Up, up you go, you must be introduced. You must learn belonging to (no-one) Drenched in the white veil ...
The basket gathered pulled closer to me the farm stand treasure close by my side The pages of the summer ...
To be sticky clay in the hands of the potter malleable to his touch ready for his direction Seeking his ...
Not like summer hot humidity a coolness of spring light on the air Yet the sounds, the motion the waking ...
The morning sticky moisture coming, rising on my brow my forehead, almost without exertion calling for the tissue to mop ...
The sticky mud, slimy mire the troubles, the ways of the world not a permanent sentence forgiven by the Lord ...
Placed up from the pit, the sticky mud of the world by the hand of God redeemed, saved placed up ...
The snap of the apple fresh-picked from the orchard the juices, sticky, drizzling down in my beard the bumblebees humming ...
After getting home driving in the gossamer snow the dance of the crystals falling in the air accumulating on the ...
Published on the internet ephemeral, lasting are my words fleeting moments in the web typing on gossamer strands, threads lines ...
Smooth glass, clear, or in the prism's spectrum Cool of polished marble in Washington's monuments smooth of a baby's skin, ...
"Oh, gross!" A chorus of groans at the thought of her sticky hair in a world without indoor plumbing or ...
Across the room under sticky, greasy, fresh fingerprints, the static-held dust, a constellation of stars little white lights of the ...
Like a thick cluster of ripe Concord grapes The blueberries hung on the bush Eager for my grasp, their liberation ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes, Come to yo' pappy an' set on his knee. What you been doin', suh ...
An ingenuity too astonishing to be quite fortuitous is this bog full of sundews, sphagnum- lined and shaped like a ...
I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for ...
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay drifting toward me on the T stop, the train circling the ...
Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn, Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars; Strange entrees with a ...
Water ruffled and speckled by galloping wind Which puffs and spurts it into tiny pashing breaks Dashed with lemon-yellow afternoon ...
death wants more death, and its webs are full: I remember my father's garage, how child-like I would brush the ...
Drunk as drunk on turpentine From your open kisses, Your wet body wedged Between my wet body and the strake ...
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through ...
Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of ...
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